General Text Transforms, Including Transliteration
ICU General transforms provide different ways for processing Unicode text. They are useful in handling a variety of different tasks, including:
Upper Case, Lower Case, Title Case, Full/Halfwidth conversions,
Normalization,
Hex and Character Name conversions,
Script to Script conversion/transliteration.
stri_trans_general(str, id)
str |
character vector |
id |
a single string with transform identifier,
see |
ICU Transforms were mainly designed to transliterate characters from one script to another (for example, from Greek to Latin, or Japanese Katakana to Latin). However, these services are also capable of handling a much broader range of tasks. In particular, the Transforms include pre-built transformations for case conversions, for normalization conversions, for the removal of given characters, and also for a variety of language and script transliterations. Transforms can be chained together to perform a series of operations and each step of the process can use a UnicodeSet to restrict the characters that are affected.
To get the list of available transforms,
call stri_trans_list.
Note that transliterators are often combined in sequence
to achieve a desired transformation.
This is analogous to the composition of mathematical functions.
For example, given a script that converts lowercase ASCII characters
from Latin script to Katakana script, it is convenient to first
(1) separate input base characters and accents, and then (2)
convert uppercase to lowercase.
To achieve this, a compound transform can be specified as follows:
NFKD; Lower; Latin-Katakana;
Returns a character vector.
General Transforms – ICU User Guide, http://userguide.icu-project.org/transforms/general
Other transform:
stri_trans_char(),
stri_trans_list(),
stri_trans_nfc(),
stri_trans_tolower()
stri_trans_general('gro\u00df', 'latin-ascii')
stri_trans_general('stringi', 'latin-greek')
stri_trans_general('stringi', 'latin-cyrillic')
stri_trans_general('stringi', 'upper') # see stri_trans_toupper
stri_trans_general('\u0104', 'nfd; lower') # compound id; see stri_trans_nfd
stri_trans_general('tato nie wraca ranki wieczory', 'pl-pl_FONIPA')
stri_trans_general('\u2620', 'any-name') # character name
stri_trans_general('\\N{latin small letter a}', 'name-any') # decode name
stri_trans_general('\u2620', 'hex') # to hexPlease choose more modern alternatives, such as Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox.